ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Iran’s military says that its latest ballistic missile tests are to face threats posed by Israel to the country and were fired at predetermined targets across the country.
Hussein Salami, second commander of the Iranian army told Tasnim news: “Designing these 2,000 km missiles is to target our distant enemy which the Zionist regime.”
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran announced that it had tested a number of H, F ballistic missiles codenamed “the power of Vilayet 1” on Tuesday which according to the army hit their targets on the coast of the Sea of Oman.
“The Zionist regime will soon crumble,” Salami said. “While the Hezbollah has a stockpile of a hundred thousand rockets, Iran has ten times that number of missiles of all kinds.”
The missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers were fired from eastern Alborz Mountains.
According to FARS news agency the missiles carried an Arabic inscription reading “Israel must be wiped off the map,”
“The message to the enemy is defense and resilience,” Salami told the Iranian media. “The missiles tested today are the product of the sanctions. The sanctions brought Iran missile expansion.”
The missile tests come less than two months after the United States imposed new sanctions on a number of Iranian and foreign companies connected to Iran’s missile program which Washington believes violates last year’s nuclear deal.
Hussein Salami, second commander of the Iranian army told Tasnim news: “Designing these 2,000 km missiles is to target our distant enemy which the Zionist regime.”
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran announced that it had tested a number of H, F ballistic missiles codenamed “the power of Vilayet 1” on Tuesday which according to the army hit their targets on the coast of the Sea of Oman.
“The Zionist regime will soon crumble,” Salami said. “While the Hezbollah has a stockpile of a hundred thousand rockets, Iran has ten times that number of missiles of all kinds.”
The missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers were fired from eastern Alborz Mountains.
According to FARS news agency the missiles carried an Arabic inscription reading “Israel must be wiped off the map,”
“The message to the enemy is defense and resilience,” Salami told the Iranian media. “The missiles tested today are the product of the sanctions. The sanctions brought Iran missile expansion.”
The missile tests come less than two months after the United States imposed new sanctions on a number of Iranian and foreign companies connected to Iran’s missile program which Washington believes violates last year’s nuclear deal.
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